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\u201cChildren who read slowly can be schooled to do better. Dogs who eat slowly have a hard way to\u00a0go.\u201d<\/p><\/div>Inside my head, I have never felt myself to be a day over nineteen years old, but in fact I am a walking antique. In consequence, I can see everything that has gone wrong with education since it was ruined in my behalf. I hope I am not smug: I am crushed by my ignorance, so great I cannot even weigh it, much less comprehend it. I know how much better education was 50 years before I hit the books \u2013 but I know how much worse it is now.<\/p>\n
Lately I am beswarmed, it would seem, by trivial, obvious spelling errors. It is a given that most people younger than me can’t read to any profit. The ability to spell properly is sustained by reading lots and lots of properly-spelled text. The implication would be that, not only can paid writers not spell, they don’t read very much, either. And these same facts must also be true of their editors, who are literally paid to know better.<\/p>\n
My solution would be Latin, of course. No one who can decline in linguam Latinam<\/em> can confuse affect for effect \u2013 nor any a-, ad- (accusative) words for similarly-spelled e-, ex- (ablative) forms. Attic Greek will work, too, to make you exacting and to train your memory. But spelling is grammar in Latin, so if you get it wrong, you get everything wrong.<\/p>\n Looking for an easier answer: Mark down, consistently, for spelling errors \u2013 in school but more importantly at work. At a minimum, they are indicia of carelessness, and carelessness breeds catastrophe.<\/p>\n In other news:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Redfin.com:<\/strong> Housing Market Update: One-Third of Homes Find Buyers Within a Week.<\/a><\/p>\n CNBC:<\/strong> Foreclosures are surging now that Covid mortgage bailouts are ending, but they\u2019re still at low levels.<\/a><\/p>\n Andrea Widburg:<\/strong> Thanks to Biden\u2019s policies, prepare for a cold, expensive winter.<\/a><\/p>\n Kyle Becker:<\/strong> Internal Capitol Police Documents on Ashli Babbitt Shooting Released: \u2018No Good Reason for Shooting,\u2019 Judicial Watch President Says.<\/a><\/p>\n American Thinker:<\/strong> The silver lining in the Democrats’ assault on kids in the <\/a>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cChildren who read slowly can be schooled to do better. Dogs who eat slowly have a hard way to\u00a0go.\u201dInside my head, I have never felt myself to be a day over nineteen years old, but in fact I am a walking antique. In consequence, I can see everything that has gone wrong with education since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,26,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18552","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-group-therapy","7":"category-lending","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":89,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/89\/spellcheck-20-bringing-the-benefits-of-web-20-back-to-the-desktop\/","url_meta":{"origin":18552,"position":0},"title":"SpellCheck 2.0: Bringing the benefits of Web 2.0 back to the desktop…","author":"Greg Swann","date":"July 15, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I was writing today, and I realized that spell checking, for all its added efficiencies, isn't terribly smarter than it was on the dedicated text-processing systems of the 1980s. It made the jump to desktop machines, of course, a trusty sidekick of word-processing, the first true \"killer app\" of micro-computing.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blogging"","block_context":{"text":"Blogging","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/category\/blogging\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1449,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/1449\/spellcheck-20-bringing-the-benefits-of-web-20-back-to-the-desktop-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":18552,"position":1},"title":"SpellCheck 2.0: Bringing the benefits of Web 2.0 back to the desktop","author":"Greg Swann","date":"May 20, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I wrote this when BloodhoundBlog was very young, and I don't think anyone got the joke at the time. There have been plenty of amazingly stoopid Web 2.0 product launches since then, but that doesn't mean this is not still humor-for-one. 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